"Do you think it should be thrilling? Is it thrilling that the fighter plane cannot land? Although it only took less than ten minutes to fly, ask these technicians who are not in their throats?" Liu Yijiu was so angry that he asked Xia Fei why the J-10th thrilling first flight did not appear thrilling.

What kind of thought do these guys look at it?

Is it to seek excitement?

"Okay, okay, don't be furious here. The first flight mission has been safe and successful, which is what we all hope to see!" Xia Fei ignored Liu Yijiu's anger and said with a smile, "Congratulations to everyone! Thank you for your efforts, making our Air Force's equipment more and more advanced!"

Not to mention anything else, just a shorter takeoff distance than the J-11 allowed Xia Fei to discover the advantages of this fighter.

Not to mention the equipment of more advanced engines, more advanced avionics systems, etc.

It's not thrilling, it's just his joke.

"When the J-10 has completed the test flight work and the design is finalized, let's consider which air force equipment is equipped!" Long Yaohua's words made Liu Yijiu feel much better.

Although it was not clear that Liu Yijiu was very relieved whether the Air Force was equipped with a J-11 that was copied from the F-14 or the first domestic J-10 designed independently.

"However, the pilot training work still needs to be carried out, not just the simulation cabin. I think you should consider the trainer aircraft first when producing. Currently, domestic trainer aircraft are too far from this. Pilots trained by the trainer aircraft of J-7 and J-8 obviously cannot fly the J-11 or J-11..."

At the summary meeting, Xia Fei put forward the requirement to provide a trainer plane in Factory 132.

At present, the most advanced trainer aircraft in China is the J-7, which completed its first flight last year and has not yet been designed and finalized.

"This is indeed a very serious problem. We have considered this issue before. The current model of training test pilots cannot be promoted nationwide. Whether it is design or airborne equipment, it is different from the mainstream models of the J-7 and J-8 currently equipped in China..." When talking about this, everyone in the 611 Institute had a headache.

"Isn't the J-7 good enough? Although the design has not been completed, it has had its first flight last year and can complete all the training subjects of the J-7 and most of the training subjects of the J-8!" Johnson was a little confused. "And it also has certain ground attack and air attack capabilities, which can train pilots' driving skills and air combat capabilities..."

Although the J-10 or J-11 are much more advanced, overall the problem should not be very big. At least some of the training subjects can be completed, which is much safer than flying directly on a fighter jet.

The basic operation process has not changed at all.

"No! The J-7 is completely different from ours. We are heavy fighter jets. Whether it is avionics or operating systems, they are somewhat biased towards the Western system, rather than the Soviet system..." Liu Yijiu shook his head, "What's more, ours is still the most advanced heavy fighter jet. Whether it is its flight performance or combat mode, it is different from the J-7 and J-8."

"Isn't the Hongdu Aircraft Factory studying and demonstrating a new trainer plane?" Johnson didn't expect that this thing was still so complicated.

"It's even more impossible. Not to mention that Hongdu has not started designing yet, even if it has started designing, it is useless, because they are designing a junior trainer!" Liu Yijiu knew very well about the trainer of the Republic.

Hongdu Aircraft Factory is currently cooperating with Pakistan, mainly designing new jet junior trainers, rather than the more advanced trainers that Liu Yijiu and others need.

The J-7, which trains pilots for J-7 and J-8, is not good, let alone the primary trainer aircraft that has not started to be designed yet.

"If it really doesn't work, you can only modify the J-10 or J-11 into a trainer aircraft. But in this way, the cost is too high!" Xia Fei sighed, "Comrade Xiao Liu, give me a solid foundation. If you purchase the J-11 in China, how much is the price?"

When it was sold to Pakistan and Iran, Liu Yijiu offered a price of 55 million US dollars per vehicle, which is equivalent to RMB at a price of nearly 300 million!

Where can the Air Force be equipped?

Not to mention using trainers more frequently.

"We don't want profits, and they shouldn't be less than 150 million..." Liu Yijiu did not make random quotes.

"You are simply robbing money!" Xia Fei was a little powerless to complain about this price.

How much does the Air Force spend in a year?

A imitation F-14 can be worth nearly ten J-7s or J-8s!

"This is how advanced fighter jets..." Liu Yijiu did not explain too much.

"Or else, these fighter jets have to be exported anyway, so why not jointly develop a project with Hongdu? Let's put it aside for the junior trainer jet project?" Without trainer jets, this is also a very troublesome thing.

It is impossible for the Air Force to directly modify trainers like the Ninth Academy.

The cost is too high.

The tasks of trainers and fighter jets are different, mainly to train pilots' flight skills and air combat capabilities at a lower cost.

If you use a fighter, like the Ninth Academy, you can directly use the simulation cabin to train, and then go to the fighter to operate directly, this model is not only expensive, but also very dangerous. Once the heavy fighter goes to the sky, the hourly flight cost is counted in tens of thousands of dollars. Pilots with less training time are very likely to fall directly into the fighter...

It is strange that the Air Force will not go bankrupt if it falls a few aircraft.

"Now the development is not enough to catch up..." Liu Yijiu shook his head and said, "If it really doesn't work, I can only produce some double-sitting..."

"The cost is too high..." The Air Force's insufficient funding is a big problem.

Usually, there is very little time to fly, let alone training.

"Teach the old to lead the new, when our test flight brigade is trained, the Air Force pilots can follow suit, and at the same time, make the simulated flight cabin function more perfect..." Liu Yijiu had no choice.

Iran has a mature F-14 flight training program and even has a special trainer aircraft.

So they didn't propose it at all when purchasing.

Pakistan has reached its current level of relationship with Iran. It is very likely that Pakistani pilots have already been trained in Iran. As for Argentina, Iran is expected to help solve the problem.

In the end, it's only China.

Although the J-11 can also adopt a two-seater mode like the F-14, China has always adopted a single-seater...

This will make the aerodynamic layout of the fighter more perfect.

"At the beginning, this was the only way. But we still hope that your fighter jets would simply use a two-seater layout..." Xia Fei sighed helplessly, what's the matter!

"Using a two-seat layout will not affect the aerodynamic layout, but just allowing two pilots to achieve one person's flexibility when flying at high speed in the air is obviously not possible..." Liu Yijiu also has his own helplessness.

Two-seater aircraft generally have one pilot controlling the flight attitude of the fighter, and another pilot controlling the weapon system, which will affect the aircraft's combat capability.

Even advanced fighter jets like the F-22 adopt a single-seat layout, not a two-seat!

Su-27 also adopts a single-seat layout.

"Director Liu is right. After more than ten years of argumentation, no pilot of the two two-seater fighter jets did more flexible during flight training..." Simonlov also began to support Liu Yijiu, "Operation of two people will reveal more flaws to the enemy, making the fighter jets more likely to be shot down!"

"So, two-seaters can only be used as trainers?" Xia Fei asked with some pain.

"Do we have a better solution?" Liu Yijiu shrugged.

"If this is the case, how much more can our Air Force be equipped?"

"That's your Air Force's business. What we are considering is to design, produce and manufacture the most advanced weapons and equipment..." Liu Yijiu said proudly.

"Let's contact Hongdu and the 011 base..." Long Yaohua was very dissatisfied with Liu Yijiu's attitude. "Comrade Liu, we have to consider it comprehensively when we do our work! This is obviously a problem that you didn't think carefully..."

When Long Yaohua said this, he kept winking at Liu Yijiu, telling him not to continue speaking.

Although Liu Yijiu didn't understand what he meant, he could only hold it back angrily. Anyway, Long Yaohua had never harmed him.

"In the early stage, let's adopt the method of bringing new ones from the old. Don't the test flight brigade have more than ten pilots? Are there two F-14s? With the simulation cabin, let the pilots get familiar with them, and then fly in the sky for dozens of hours. It should be a big problem... Then the Air Force will issue a task to develop supporting trainers..."

Long Yaohua's proposal combines the opinions of both parties.

The Air Force is equipped with one of these two types of fighter jets. No matter which one, there is no trainer jet that can complete all training, and even the operating system is not the same in China.

In the future, the fighter jets will obviously develop based on these two models and study new trainer jets. This is inevitable.

It is impossible to refuse to equip advanced new fighter jets because of the high cost.

"I agree with General Staff Long." Jiang Sen felt that Long Yaohua's proposal was very good.

All the Air Force and all the Ninth Courtyard.

The current task of Institute 611 is already heavy, so it will definitely not spend any more energy on researching the trainer machine.

Other units have fewer tasks, so this is the best.
Chapter completed!